When Tchaikovsky premiered his famous ballet The Nutcracker in Saint Petersburg 130 years ago, it was - as was customary at the time - presented as a double performance together with the opera Iolanta. Double performance performed together with the opera Iolanta. The Vienna Volksoper, which also hosts the famous Vienna State Ballet, under the direction of the new artistic director Lotte de Beer and the music director Omer Meir Wellber, presents both works again in one evening, but not as two separate pieces, but by merging the two works to a single one. It is a "successful debut that is also musically convincing" and the "two pieces mesh like gears." Jorine van Beek's costumes make it a "feast for the eyes" (Die Presse). "This imaginative 'musical theater for the whole family' especially enchants the numerous children and young people.
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